Re: Building FreeBSD Current on Debian Squeeze AMD64

2009-07-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:12:14PM +0200, Oliver Pinter typed: > debian not only linux based: http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ > http://www.debian.org/ports/#nonlinux That's not the point. FreeBSD is a complete OS. Not just a kernel and some tools Why would you want to replace all the use

Are all USB Flash Memory sticks bootable?

2009-07-22 Thread Fbsd1
Have problem with being able to boot off an new 8GB USB Flash Memory stick. When I load the 8.0 disc1.iso to an 2GB USB Flash Memory stick it will boot fine. But when I do the same thing to a new 8GB USB Flash Memory stick it’s not recognized as bootable. I can access the installed partitions m

Re: Install from a USB Pen

2009-07-22 Thread Fbsd1
Randi Harper wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: Took 3 times longer to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img that to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso. I suggest you look into another method of creating the memstick.img so it downloads faster. dd does no compression of

Re: Ports and package creation Automation

2009-07-22 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:50:23 -0400, Glen Barber wrote: > I believe you are looking for the following: > make package > make package-recursive If you're using portupgrade / portinstall, the -p option should be a good choice: -p --package Build a package when each specified

Re: make installkernel KERNCONF= faults with error

2009-07-22 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:11:14 +0300, Anton wrote: > >Hello freebsd-questions, > >It says that there is no libbsm Check that all your sorces are complete and of the same version. The libbsm is part of openbsm - /usr/src/contrib/openbsm/. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy Fre

Re: gutenprint and lpd

2009-07-22 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:26:21 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Gould wrote: > Is there a way to use gutenprint drivers with lpd when the > printer definition is not in the foomatic database? A "problem" is that CUPS seems to replace the default printer spooler mechanism. There are settings in /etc/rc.conf tha

Re: limit to number of files seen by ls?

2009-07-22 Thread Julian Zottl
How are you using ls? I presume something along the lines of "ls -la | more". What does "sysctl fs.file-ma" and "sysctl kern.maxfiles" tell you? I've seen directories with 1+ files. The only problem I've ever had with that many is using the rm command. In that case, you will need to use so

Re: rm -rf and fat fingers

2009-07-22 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Jimmie James wrote: So here I was, half asleep, removing some old directories as root, and here's what I did...sitting in /home/jimmie after su jim...@jimmiejaz <101> [0] /home/jimmie#rm -rf cd /usr/local/lib (note the space, the PWD is home/jimmie/) Now, a lot of libs went missing from /u

Re: rm -rf and fat fingers

2009-07-22 Thread Jimmie James
Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Jimmie James wrote: So here I was, half asleep, removing some old directories as root, and here's what I did...sitting in /home/jimmie after su jim...@jimmiejaz <101> [0] /home/jimmie#rm -rf cd /usr/local/lib (note the space, the PWD is home/jimmie/) Now, a lot of li

Bruteblock

2009-07-22 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am trying to get Bruteblock working on FreeBSD 6.2 and hav e run into a snag. It appears that Proftpd is not sending log detail to the auth or authpriv facility. I have a simple Proftpd setup, with the SysLog directive completely removed, and according to the man, it is supposed

Re: rm -rf and fat fingers

2009-07-22 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/7/22 Jimmie James : > So here I was, half asleep, removing some old directories as root, and > here's what I did...sitting in /home/jimmie after su > > jim...@jimmiejaz <101> [0] /home/jimmie#rm -rf cd /usr/local/lib   (note the > space, the PWD is home/jimmie/) > > Now, a lot of libs went mis

Re: rm -rf and fat fingers

2009-07-22 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Jimmie James wrote: > So here I was, half asleep, removing some old directories as root, and > here's what I did...sitting in /home/jimmie after su > > jim...@jimmiejaz <101> [0] /home/jimmie#rm -rf cd /usr/local/lib   (note the > space, the PWD is home/jimmie/) > >

rm -rf and fat fingers

2009-07-22 Thread Jimmie James
So here I was, half asleep, removing some old directories as root, and here's what I did...sitting in /home/jimmie after su jim...@jimmiejaz <101> [0] /home/jimmie#rm -rf cd /usr/local/lib (note the space, the PWD is home/jimmie/) Now, a lot of libs went missing from /usr/local/lib. With li

limit to number of files seen by ls?

2009-07-22 Thread John Almberg
I seem to have run into an odd problem... A client has a directory with a big-ish number of jpgs... maybe 4000. Problem is, I can only see 2329 of them with ls, and I'm running into other problems, I think. Question: Is there some limit to the number of files that a directory can contain?

ndis0 stops working after a while

2009-07-22 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Since a couple of weeks I noted my wireless connection (Broadcom 4310 ndis wrapper) stops working after a while, something like 10 minutes after I leave the notebook, a Dell Inspiron 1525. Then I have to ifconfig ndis0 down / ifconfig ndis0 up to reconnect. The notebook is connected via WiFi

Re: Purple photos on firefox..

2009-07-22 Thread Al Plant
herbert langhans wrote: Aloha Al, its all kosher with the monitor, cables and graphic card. When I open a website, like a magazine, then I have i.e 10 pictures showing up well and two totally in purple. It must be a software issue. Just wonder where it comes from. Firefox 3.5? The Firefox libra

Journal overflow panic

2009-07-22 Thread Brian McCann
I've been having a problem for the past few weeks with a file server I have. It's recently started throwing a panic after about 24 hours of service (it's rare that it lasts longer then that...sometimes as low as 20 hrs): Panic String: Journal overflow (joffset=12964580764160 active=12964584978944

Re: Purple photos on firefox..

2009-07-22 Thread herbert langhans
Aloha Al, its all kosher with the monitor, cables and graphic card. When I open a website, like a magazine, then I have i.e 10 pictures showing up well and two totally in purple. It must be a software issue. Just wonder where it comes from. Firefox 3.5? The Firefox libraries? Screendriver? Fre

Re: Purple photos on firefox..

2009-07-22 Thread Al Plant
Steve Bertrand wrote: herbert langhans wrote: - sometimes the photos, mostly the JPG I guess, appear visible but in a deep purple shade. I can't resist... was it about 1620 hrs when you witnessed this? ;) Steve ### Aloha, Check your monitor video "cable" I had one here with

Re: (no subject)

2009-07-22 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Jon Radel wrote: > wcl...@dl1.njit.edu wrote: >> >> How do I set up mail server on 7.2bsd > > That's such a broad question that it's unreasonable to expect a complete > answer on a mailing list.  So I'd suggest you start with reading some > documentation, such as >

Re: Ports and package creation Automation

2009-07-22 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > hello list, > > After searching google for 5 minutes I cant find what I am looking for. > > I know that pkg_create command will create packages for the other 3 boxes. > if I am going to rebuild all of my ports from scratch, can I somehow > t

Ports and package creation Automation

2009-07-22 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
hello list, After searching google for 5 minutes I cant find what I am looking for. I know that pkg_create command will create packages for the other 3 boxes. if I am going to rebuild all of my ports from scratch, can I somehow tell FreeBSD to create a package all the time and store it in a direc

Re: ULE and Prescott question

2009-07-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Scott Bennett wrote: > This is a curiousity question. I'm running 7.2-STABLE at present on > an old Inspiron XPS, which has a 3.4 GHz P4 Prescott CPU. I have > hyperthreading enabled in the kernel. The question is: is there any > appreciable performance difference to be expected with this

Re: broken link on http://www.freebsddiary.org/newbies.php

2009-07-22 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:46 PM, wrote: > Hi, >  I don't mean to bother you, but I was doing some research on Unix for a > summer programming class I'm taking when I came across your > page:http://www.freebsddiary.org/newbies.php . > I noticed you link to:   > http://www-wks.acs.ohio-state.edu/

Re: amarok

2009-07-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ajtiM writes: > Problem after problem. I try to rebuild Amarok on my FreeBSD 7.2 and I got: > > deps/ktrm.Tpo -c -o ktrm.lo ktrm.cpp > ktrm.cpp:47:27: error: tunepimp/tp_c.h: No such file or directory > ktrm.cpp:57: error: variable or field 'TRMNotifyCallback' declared void > ktrm.cpp:57: error:

Re: (no subject)

2009-07-22 Thread Jon Radel
wcl...@dl1.njit.edu wrote: How do I set up mail server on 7.2bsd That's such a broad question that it's unreasonable to expect a complete answer on a mailing list. So I'd suggest you start with reading some documentation, such as http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ma

Re: (no subject)

2009-07-22 Thread Jason
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html -jgh On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 02:23:58PM -0400, wcl...@dl1.njit.edu thus spake: How do I set up mail server on 7.2bsd ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

(no subject)

2009-07-22 Thread wclark
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Re: MS Project file viewer

2009-07-22 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 05:07:41PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El d?a Wednesday, July 22, 2009 a las 12:54:20PM +0100, Craig Butler escribi?: > > > openproj work great for me and is available in ports. > > Thanks for the hint; I've installed it and it works; but on printing it > crashes with t

Re: Two VPN via two DSL lines to one ISP

2009-07-22 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Anton wrote: Asked tech's of ISP - they said that they do not dupport multilink ppp You can achieve almost the same effect with the aid of a firewall. There many posts/tutorials/examples on the net, regarding load sharing and (pf|ipf|ipfw). Try to adapt one to your setup and post your questions

Re: Install from a USB Pen (semi OT)

2009-07-22 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Mikel King wrote: > > Just curious, but is there an easy way to get all of this onto the pen in > the first place? I missed the origin of the thread. > > dd if= of= bs=10240 conv=sync -- randi ___ freebsd-questions@free

broken link on http://www.freebsddiary.org/newbies.php

2009-07-22 Thread lisa
Hi, I don't mean to bother you, but I was doing some research on Unix for a summer programming class I'm taking when I came across your page:http://www.freebsddiary.org/newbies.php . I noticed you link to: http://www-wks.acs.ohio-state.edu/unix_course/unix.html . It seems to be broken. :( Du

make installkernel KERNCONF= faults with error

2009-07-22 Thread Anton
Hello freebsd-questions, It says that there is no libbsm -- -- Best regards, Anton= ;[1]mailto:an...@sng.by Administrator Feel free to contact me via ICQ 363780596 via Skype dobryak47 via phone +375 29 3320987 References

Re: Install from a USB Pen (semi OT)

2009-07-22 Thread Mikel King
On Jul 20, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Ken Smith wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 11:41 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Took 3 times longer to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img that to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso. I suggest you look into another method of creating the memstick.img so it downloads f

Re: MS Project file viewer

2009-07-22 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, July 22, 2009 a las 12:54:20PM +0100, Craig Butler escribió: > openproj work great for me and is available in ports. Thanks for the hint; I've installed it and it works; but on printing it crashes with te messages below on stderr; any idea? matthias Exception in thread

gutenprint and lpd

2009-07-22 Thread Andrew Gould
The CUPS administration tool prints a fine test page to an Epson Stylus Photo R280 using a gutenprint ppd; but the printer does not appear in Abiword or Gimp. Attempts to configure the printer under Gimp's gutenprint plugin were a disaster -- my fault, I'm sure. I'm running FreeBSD 7.2 (STABL

Re: Question about install FreeBSD

2009-07-22 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Glen Barber wrote: > 2009/7/22 asdasd asdasd : >> Hello. Sorry for ny bad english. :) >> My trouble - I install BSD on first computer, after than plug hard drive >> into other computer, but it doesn`t work! Can you help? After booting BIOS >> FreeBSD print "Can`t

Re: Purple photos on firefox..

2009-07-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:52 PM, herbert langhans wrote: > > It seems to be some firefox bug. When I save the certain purple JPG and > display it with another program on my comp it appears normal. > > Screenshot would look ok on any computer.. > > And it just happens occasionally. Maybe some scre

Re: Question about install FreeBSD

2009-07-22 Thread Glen Barber
2009/7/22 asdasd asdasd : > Hello. Sorry for ny bad english. :) > My trouble - I install BSD on first computer, after than plug hard drive into > other computer, but it doesn`t work! Can you help? After booting BIOS FreeBSD > print "Can`t load kernel". What did I must do? > > Thanks %) > Did you

Question about install FreeBSD

2009-07-22 Thread asdasd asdasd
Hello. Sorry for ny bad english. :) My trouble - I install BSD on first computer, after than plug hard drive into other computer, but it doesn`t work! Can you help? After booting BIOS FreeBSD print "Can`t load kernel". What did I must do? Thanks %) Если кто-то что-то понял, опишите на русском :

ULE and Prescott question

2009-07-22 Thread Scott Bennett
This is a curiousity question. I'm running 7.2-STABLE at present on an old Inspiron XPS, which has a 3.4 GHz P4 Prescott CPU. I have hyperthreading enabled in the kernel. The question is: is there any appreciable performance difference to be expected with this hardware setup between the UL

Re: MS Project file viewer

2009-07-22 Thread Craig Butler
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 11:26 +, Randall Wood wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:12:35AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Is there any MS Project (mpp) file viewer which runs on FreeBSD? Thx > > > > matthias > > My company uses Steelray Viewer at the office; to my grea

Re: MS Project file viewer

2009-07-22 Thread Randall Wood
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:12:35AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > Is there any MS Project (mpp) file viewer which runs on FreeBSD? Thx > > matthias My company uses Steelray Viewer at the office; to my great surprise there is a Linux version available, which makes me think it

Re[2]: Two VPN via two DSL lines to one ISP

2009-07-22 Thread Anton
Hello Nikos, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 11:16:08 AM, you wrote: > Anton wrote: >>Hello freebsd-questions, >> >>Have one ISP and two lines from him. Connection to Internet are made >>via=PN. Could load-balancing be realized with help of mpd5 or some >>other util=ty, which provides

Re[2]: Two VPN via two DSL lines to one ISP

2009-07-22 Thread Anton
Hello Nikos, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 11:16:08 AM, you wrote: > Anton wrote: >>Hello freebsd-questions, >> >>Have one ISP and two lines from him. Connection to Internet are made >>via=PN. Could load-balancing be realized with help of mpd5 or some >>other util=ty, which provides

Re: asking about NIC card for freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-07-22 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:13 AM, wrote: > i doubt about NIC card BMC5674 support or not for freebsd7.2 ? or should i > use freebsd8.2 beta ? > hope reply me. Neither (or both). The Broadcom cards are tricky and they have been talked about a lot. Look at this list's archives and/or google someth

problems with chroot with mod_secrity on freebsd

2009-07-22 Thread Rajaie Issaid
Hi , I have FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE installed on amd64 , I installed apache22 with mod_security2 , when I try to activate the SecChroot , the below errors appears , the documentation denotes that it should be straight forward without any problem , but apparently I have problem with mod_rewrite . I

Re: Two VPN via two DSL lines to one ISP

2009-07-22 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Anton wrote: Hello freebsd-questions, Have one ISP and two lines from him. Connection to Internet are made via=PN. Could load-balancing be realized with help of mpd5 or some other util=ty, which provides VPN connections? With mpd you can combine several ppp links in to one. This p

MS Project file viewer

2009-07-22 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Is there any MS Project (mpp) file viewer which runs on FreeBSD? Thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.unixarea.de/ People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use FreeBSD. __